Sentence examples for achieved startling from inspiring English sources

The British version of Glamour magazine in particular has achieved startling success, quickly becoming Britain's leading women's magazine.

His enemies arranged for him to be given (1854) the nearly impossible task of halting the revolt and brigandage rampant in Rumelia, in the Balkans, where he achieved startling success.

As the Commerce Department noted when it gave Southcentral a national quality award in 2011, known as the Malcolm Baldrige award, the foundation has achieved startling efficiencies: emergency room use has been reduced by 50 percent, hospital admissions by 53 percent, specialty care visits by 65 percent and visits to primary care doctors by 36 percent.

The book is dedicated to the memory of Herbert Sulzbach, who fought for the Kaiser in the first world war, fled to London after the Nazis confiscated his Berlin paper mill, was interned on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien in 1938, and later achieved startling success as a British army sergeant charged with the de-nazification of captured German soldiers and SS officers.

Second, these technologies have empowered do-it-yourself innovators to achieve startling advances — in vehicle engineering, medical care and even synthetic biology — with scant resources and little manpower, so we can stop depending on big corporations or national laboratories.

Furthermore, Radszuweit's determination to project a well-behaved, middle-class image anticipated the strategy that has allowed the H.R.C. and other organizations to achieve startling victories in recent years.

(I've tried this before in my fiction and know that if you play it right, you can achieve startling effects via the juxtaposition of the flatness of the prose with what's lurking in the action).

It is all the same story, and surely to Reni's credit that he achieved this startling effect, not just with one, but with two of his Sebastians.

As an artist who knows a difficult technical problem when he sees one, he is convinced that few painters of note between about 1440 and 1860 -- Van Eyck, Rubens, Caravaggio, Vermeer and Ingres, for starters -- could have achieved their startling realistic effects by, as Mr. Hockney says, "simply eyeballing it".

Nevertheless, he spent a year on a Knox Fellowship studying at the Ruskin School (see A Madman), before settling in New York to fulfil a long-held ambition – achieved with startling ease – of joining the staff of the New Yorker (Toward Evening, Snowing in Greenwich Village).

Though he kept it secret, he used photography extensively to achieve the startling realism that his audiences and critics found so remarkable.